ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- At least seven people were killed and at least 24 were wounded Saturday when a car bomb exploded outside a church in Alexandria, Egypt, authorities said.
ROCKHAMPTON, Australia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Australian authorities called in the army to help evacuate families who refused to leave their homes amid some of the worst flooding in Queensland in a century.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Hungary says it will regulate all media in or directed at the country, including Internet news sites and Web-based publications.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New Year's celebrants, many of them women and children, were killed and injured in a bomb blast in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, authorities said.
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Anna Chapman, the young Russian woman expelled from the United States as a spy, would not confirm she is an agent in an appearance on Russian TV.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Mexican soldiers seized more than 4 tons of marijuana this week in Tijuana, bringing their 2010 total in Baja California to a record 300 tons, officials said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone missile strike in northwest Pakistan killed eight suspected militants in a convoy, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Britain supports action to oust Laurent Gbagbo as president in the Ivory Coast, but not necessarily with British troops, Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Brazil's president, on his last day in office, refused Friday to extradite a convicted terrorist to Italy, infuriating Rome.
KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A strike was called across Pakistan Friday to protest against possible changes to the country's blasphemy laws, media reports said.
ROME, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A member of Italy's Parliament says he wants a photo of American Amanda Knox, convicted of killing her roommate, removed from a wall in a Rome police station.
MANAMA, Bahrain, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A Christian woman will be nominated as Bahrain's ambassador to the United States, officials in the Persian Gulf island kingdom said.
MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Nearly 7,000 people have been evacuated from two provinces in the Philippines following days of relentless rain, officials with the Philippine Red Cross said.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Peace in the Middle East won't be realized until the region recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said.
TOKYO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Japan's Defense Ministry says it will investigate the use of high-flying surveillance drones to monitor activity in China and North Korea.
CANMORE, Alberta, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A sport utility vehicle swerved off a snowy gravel road and plunged into a reservoir in southwestern Alberta, killing three people, Canadian authorities said.
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- North Korea faxed New Year's greetings to South Koreans it considers likely to support sending aid across the border in 2011, a South Korean official said.
BANNU, Pakistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- At least nine people were killed in the head-on crash of a passenger bus and truck near Pakistan's Bannu district Friday, officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano arrived in Afghanistan Friday, planning to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops, her office said.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The family of one of the last men hanged in Britain want a new examination of the case, arguing that a review confirming his guilt was faulty.
MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko blamed foreigners Thursday for the large demonstrations that followed his disputed re-election.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- New development in the holy Saudi Arabian city of Mecca that includes a super-size clock tower has upset some devout Muslims.
YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.N. officials Thursday said Ivory Coast leaders perpetrating violence after the November presidential run-off will be held accountable.
